On Dec 27, 2006, at 5:02 AM, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> Greetings. From one Nerd to others.......
Greetings fellow Nerd.
>> 3) When I hook my video card up to my TV via the S-Video connection I
> can see the system post, start Linux, and watch the init structure. As
> soon as it goes over to XWindows (aka loads desktop etc) the TV
> seems to
> loose Sync and goes funky. It is likely a video card setting I need to
> fix. Any direction on this? (PS: I can Alt+F1 over to a shell and keep
> working just fine on the TV)
What is happening is that linux has *some* native support for tv out,
but X needs to know about it. That's going to be card specific. Can't
help much with ATI, but I'm sure someone here can. I use an nvidia,
and there's just a few things I had to add to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf
in the device section to tell it what type of display (ntsc vs. pal)
and that is connected through svid. not near my myth, or I'd copy and
paste the lines, but this is from wilsonet.com:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Chaintech"
BoardName "nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440"
#Option "RenderAccel" "1"
# TV Out Setup <----this is what I had to add
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
EndSection
>> That is all. I am so close I can taste live TV!!!! I just need some
> RTFM
> directions to get this thing working..
>>> Look forward to learning so in time I can 'learn others"..
>>> _________________
> Thanks,
>> Penguinpages
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